Council profiles: who supplies them, and what is coming next.
Every English council publishes two things that tell you where its money is going: the award notices it files when it buys something, and the papers it puts before a committee before it decides to. We read both. These pages put them side by side, one council at a time.
Data updated: 6 August 2026 (committee papers) | 12 June 2026 (award notices)
Birmingham City Council
- Award notices1,097
- Suppliers570
- Awarded value£840m
- Papers, last 30 days264
Braintree
- Award notices71
- Suppliers54
- Awarded value£32.3m
- Papers, last 30 days4
Kent County Council
- Award notices1,816
- Suppliers1,185
- Awarded value£1.2bn
- Papers, last 30 days132
Somerset Council
- Award notices420
- Suppliers285
- Awarded value£526m
- Papers, last 30 days134
West Midlands Combined Authority
- Award notices653
- Suppliers314
- Awarded value£293m
- Papers, last 30 days39
More councils are on the way
These five are a pilot, chosen to span the range: a unitary authority, a metropolitan borough, a county, a combined authority and a shire district. We read papers from more than 200 English local and strategic authorities every weeknight, and profiles for the rest follow.
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Where this comes from
Award, supplier and expiry figures come from award notices published to Contracts Finder and Find a Tender. Committee papers and meeting dates come from each council's own published papers. Nothing is modelled or estimated.